Child of the universe
Belonging only to the stars
Only to yourself
You
It
One
You have always been it
Always been a wanderer on earth
Seeking
Searching
Trying to catch a glimpse
Reading
Travelling
Still seeking
For what?
Only your soul knows.
And it knows in a language that you don’t speak
A language only understood by the stars
And water
How it scares you
And exhilarates you
At the same time
Just like love
Freeing, exciting, joyful
But also comes with fear.
Lots of fear.
Seeking.
Maybe today is the day it actually dawns on you,
That this is your fate
To forever seek
In people’s hearts
Their friendship
Their knowledge
Their love
Their attempts to understand you
To know you
In their arms
Their thighs
Their lips
You seek
Yourself
Maybe when you see the stars again
You shall now understand why they mean so much to you
Ooh yee child of the universe
Lost
Unfitting
In this world
With a curiosity that just never ends
Never gets depleted
Its how you throw yourself into new beginnings
New experiences
Its all or nothing
For you,
Only the deep end counts
Its how you’ve waited for a decade to learn how to swim in the deep end
You seek as if seeking is the only thing you came prewired knowing how to do
Then there is the sadness
Tiredness
Because even sojourners get tired
Sometimes they look for shades of tress to rest under
Sometimes they seek for oases
To quench their thirst
Open their maps
Find new routes
Or find the way
Home
Except when there is no home
Except when home
For you
Has always been in the stars of unfamiliar places
In the bossom of seas
On the top of mountains
In lakes
In new countries
In ugly wild animals
In the words of strangers in pages of books
That is home
Oooh yee child of the universe.
And maybe, just maybe,
Today is the day
You let go of the fear
To belong to
No one
To fit into no place
To not have a heart
That you call yours
Or a person that belongs to you
Or a place that feels like home
Because ooh yee child of the universe
Have you ever seen a sojourner with trucks of load?
Never.
They carry nothing.
Except that which is in their soul.
And so it is with you
Child
Your soul
Is the only claim you have on earth
And it knows its way home
And even if it doesn’t
The universe,
Just as it has always done
Will guide your way home.
Back into itself.
Seeking.
Always seeking.
Oooh yee child of the universe,
At last you have found your fate.
Seeking.
Mwende Kyalo 